A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.